I’ve been all over the map on Christmasing. As a kid it was wonderful and I loved it. As a teenager not so much until I had kids of my own and then I worked hard to make it special for them until they were grown and left home. My late hubby was not a huge Christmas fan once there were no kids involved and since he passed away I’ve still bounced. This year though I am about as bah humbug as I ever have been, maybe even more than in 2003 when he had only been gone a few weeks. Not sure why but I am kind of hoping it just sneaks by and lets me nap through it!
There is still magic in the midwinter season, though, and always will be. Our modern customs come from all sorts of roots and so they are a total hodge-podge. Really the only thing I totally decry is the absolute over-commercialization that has overtaken us, at least here in the USA. I mean Christmas all over Wal-Mart before Halloween!!?? That is insane and leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. I am all for simplifying and getting back to the bare-bones basics with a lot more attention to the real meaning and purpose of the date which is not to fatten the bank accounts of all the retailers!! While it flattens ours…
I will probably not even send too many greetings this year and since there are only a very few really small kids in my extended family, there is not going to be much shopping and very little baking. I plan a quiet day at home with my brother, our canine pack and maybe a very few friends in and out. But I will probably put up my little 3′ fiber optic tree and play some old carols–the traditional ones are my faves–on Christmas eve and get a little bit sentimental.
And that certainly does not preclude me wishing all of you here today a wonderful midwinter season as you celebrate your choice of holidays–or every last darn one of them!–in the most joyful and pleasant manner possible.
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